Powell River Hardcore Reefers Society meeting Now Sunday November 29th
 

All right, its that time again. I've invited myself over to PR for a tank tour. They're even ok with it this time :wink:

Sundays are best, we just need to pick a date. Sometime in November to give them a chance to organize (besides I'm in Mexico till Oct 24th :razz:).

So...whos hardcore enough....to brave the ferry anyways :razz:

Hey wait, organize? we have to organize? nobody said anything about that. :eek:

LOL, I meant a day, not everything else :razz:

It's OK Marie, I'll organize it.
Anyone interested in coming to the BIGGER & BETTER Powell River Hardcore Reefkeeper's Society. Bigger because Dave now has a 750g tank to go along with his 300g reef and 90g seahorse tanks, and better because................Well it just is! Take my word for it.
I can pick up anyone from the ferry and get you back to the ferry when you're ready to leave. All we have to do is set a date.
There will be a minimum of 3 visits: Dave's large tanks and incredible new fishes; Marie's awesome coral jungle, and my two tanks. (Between the 3 of us we have over 2000 gallons of SW). We can do lunch, have some beers and talk salty stuff.

Oh, I forgot to mention that those who are interested can PM me and let me know. I will post the date on this thread as soon as possible.

Are Lower Mainland people allowed to participate?
:mrgreen:

Absolutely, the more the merrier, plus you can dig thru my extras and see if there is anything usefull for your build.

Everybody over here is good to go. All we need to do is pick a date. Probably a Sunday is best as most people are off work. I would think early to mid-November would be better as it is not too close to Christmas and weather will possibly be better. So, Nov 1st, 8th, 15th or 22nd. What do you all think?

See you all this weekend:biggrin:

Is it already this weekend? It's not even the middle of October yet :cry:

I just need to get out of town for a few days to recharge & relax. Used to work & live up in PR for 4 years, so going to visit some friends & check out all the great tanks in the area.

Anthony

Hey Anthony, glad to hear you're coming up this way. I hope Irene keeps a close eye on your fingers this time. :mrgreen:

Can somebody please remind me of the ferry schedule? It has been a few years since I made that trip and my recollection is that you spend half the day getting there...have 1 hour...then spend the other half of the day getting back.

Is it really possible to come from the Lower Mainland, see tanks and return in one day?

It is possible to come up, spend 4 or 5 hours and then head back to vancouver but it does make for a really long day

ok I vote November 8th. Any takers? :biggrin:

Good by me.

November 8th it is! Tickets are going fast. :biggrin:

Sounds like a plan. Hopefully it will work out.

Just came back from PR & saw these tanks. Well worth the trip.

Great friends, great reefers & great hospitality.

Brad, I would highly recommend that you plan on doing an overnighter rather than a day trip. If you do a day trip, you can catch the first ferry (7:20am) and come back on the last connecting ferry (leave PR 5:25pm). You would end up getting into Pr around 11:40am and back into the Lower Mainland around 9:30pm. This would give you a max. of 4 1/2 hours in town before rushing back to the ferry at Saltery Bay.

Better off going up on Saturday and come down mid-afternoon on Sunday.

Just a suggestion from someone whose done this commute literally 100s of times since 1997.

Anthony

Anthony, it was good to see you again. Enjoyed your visit.

Pop in for a visit if you have time.:wink:

Getting closer! :Banane01:

Yup. Less than 2 weeks now. Bring a cooler with you and we'll do a little pruning.

LOL I'll have to make a 4th frag rack for that :razz:

AW GEEZ YOU PEOPLE! STOP PLANNING THESE THINGS ON DAYS THAT I HAVE TO WORK :cry::cry:
Looks like I'm going to miss out again.

Oh really. That sucks! However, you can come on your own whenever. We're all pretty flexible.

So phone in sick....it's a wonderful excuse these days :lol:

Noooo ! Time and one half on Sundays :wink: Helps pay for fish stuff. LOL

Only one week to go!

Would those people coming Sunday (Nov. 8th) please PM me and let me know what time you will be arriving or what ferry you will be on so I know when to pick you up and so I can set the agenda.
We will be visiting Dave's (Mrfish55) new 750g FOWLR with those incredibly large and beautiful fish, as well as his in-wall 300g reef; Marie's splendid SPS dominated 175g, (with the famous Doofus), and her 65g; and my 90g corner reef and 225g reef. We'll also do lunch and/or dinner. :drinking:

Just to let everyone who is coming know, I will have clippers ready and will make frags to order but I don't have many plastic bags so you might want to bring your own :mrgreen:

*edit* oh yeah and don't forget, I do have cooties...I mean red bugs :lol:

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just a note to anyone getting up reall early, the first sailing to P.R sunday morning has been canceled

Tomorrow's the day. Anyone needing a ride or other info please pm me.

Sure, Lance, could you pick me up in the morning. I'll send you my address in Burnaby:biggrin: Thanks.:wink:

JK. Hope you get a good turnout. Saw all these tanks Thanksgiving weekend & well worth the trip over, especially for Islanders.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! Stupid, #@$%&$# ferry is cancelled for maintenance. Reef Meet will have to be re-scheduled. :mad:

Sorry to hear.

I hope you have a great reef meet next time. :)

Cheers,
Vic

I just feel bad for those who drove all the way to the ferry to find out there is no sailing.

Yes that did suck :razz:

Oh well, more work on the fish room today!!:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

Ok lets talk rescheduling, I was so gung ho to talk reef with people whos eyes don't glaze over 2 seconds after I start talking about my tank :razz:

Nov 22nd??